Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, with Additions, &cJames Munroe and Company, 1841 - 347 pages |
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Page 174
... sentences , it is an obvious caution to abstain from such as are too long ; but it is a mistake to suppose that the Construc- tion of sentences . * See Elements of Logic , Fallacies , Book iii . § 5 , p . 132 . obscurity of many long ...
... sentences , it is an obvious caution to abstain from such as are too long ; but it is a mistake to suppose that the Construc- tion of sentences . * See Elements of Logic , Fallacies , Book iii . § 5 , p . 132 . obscurity of many long ...
Page 175
... sentences depends on their length alone ; a well constructed sentence of very considerable length may be more readily understood , than a shorter one which is more awkwardly framed . If a sentence be so constructed that the meaning of ...
... sentences depends on their length alone ; a well constructed sentence of very considerable length may be more readily understood , than a shorter one which is more awkwardly framed . If a sentence be so constructed that the meaning of ...
Page 176
... sentence to himself , and being satisfied on finding it perfectly intelligible ; forgetting that he himself has the advantage , which a hearer has not , of knowing at the beginning of the sentence what is coming in the close . do not im ...
... sentence to himself , and being satisfied on finding it perfectly intelligible ; forgetting that he himself has the advantage , which a hearer has not , of knowing at the beginning of the sentence what is coming in the close . do not im ...
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... sentences that convey no distinct meaning . They are content that an answer has been made , without troubling themselves to consider what it is . § 5 . Another end , which in speaking is sometimes pro- Occupying posed , and which is ...
... sentences that convey no distinct meaning . They are content that an answer has been made , without troubling themselves to consider what it is . § 5 . Another end , which in speaking is sometimes pro- Occupying posed , and which is ...
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... sentence he composes equally fine , he will , on the con- trary , give a flatness to the whole , and destroy the effect of those portions which would have been forcible , if they had been allowed to stand prominent . To brighten the ...
... sentence he composes equally fine , he will , on the con- trary , give a flatness to the whole , and destroy the effect of those portions which would have been forcible , if they had been allowed to stand prominent . To brighten the ...
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Page 314 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Page 76 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 337 - DEARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy.
Page 314 - And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Page 184 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith!
Page 112 - Among men, you see the ninety and nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one (and this one, too, oftentimes the feeblest and worst of the whole set, a child, a woman, a madman, or a fool) ; getting nothing for themselves all the while, but a little of the coarsest of the provision, which their own industry produces ; looking quietly on, while they see the fruits of all their labour spent or spoiled ; and if one of the number take or touch a particle of the hoard, the others...
Page 213 - When the old feudal and chivalrous spirit of fealty, which, by freeing kings from fear, freed both kings and subjects from the precautions of tyranny, shall be extinct in the minds of men, plots and assassinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive confiscation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims which form the political code of all power, not standing on its own honour, and the honour of those who are to obey it. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are...
Page 188 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of Nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed, in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction.
Page 336 - Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as are here present, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me ; TA General Confession to be said by the whole Congregation after the Minister; all kneeling.
Page 98 - Praecipue cum se numeris commendat et arte : Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.